ARCHITECTURE
LAMP - will use our house PHP/Zend stack.
COMPONENTS
Site in a Sitting creation/Edit wizard
The core of QuickPages is "Site in a Sitting", third party software written by DKS Interactive. DKSi also uses Site in a Sitting to power their web hosting service. We are the first customer to run Site in a Sitting on our own servers.
Templates
Site in a Sitting uses templates, a set of stylesheets that dictate the look and feel of a site. The templates produce HTML, and the HTML may be edited by the user as they wish.
A template usually has two page types, the front page and the content pages. A template sets elements like: a three-color color palette, number of columns on a page, location of banner graphic on the front page, and location of navigation menus.
It's easy to customize the look of a site within the template so they don't look cookie-cutter. NorthEastern University has over 90 Site in a Sitting sites, with a variety of looks.
Site management page
LAMP
Moira groups
For giving edit permissions, and allowing helpdesk access to sites.
Touchstone
For authentication. Apache will be set to require Touchstone authentication for site management, creation, and editing.